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Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant FAQ |
 | | Savant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disorders, including autistic disorder, have astonishing islands of ability, brilliance or talent that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to overall limitations. |
 | | The savant skills co-exist with, or are superimposed upon, various developmental disabilities including autistic disorder, or other conditions such as mental retardation or brain injury or disease that occurs before (pre-natal) during (peri-natal) or after birth (post-natal), or even later in childhood or adult life. |
 | | Savant skills are very prominent in many Asperger's persons, certainly as high as in 10% of them, and it is often those highly specialized skills that bring Asperger's persons to prominence. |
| www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org /savant/faq.cfm (5384 words) |
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